World leaders call for restraint after Israel’s airstrikes on Iran

Israel had failed to achieve its ominous goals with its air raids: Guards chief Hossein

Some of the buildings damaged sat in Iran’s Parchin military base, where the International Atomic Energy Agency suspects Iran in the past conducted tests of high explosives that could trigger a nuclear weapon.

It was retaliation for Iran's Oct 1 attack on Israel with about 200 ballistic missiles as Israel warned its arch-foe not to hit back after the latest strike.

Israel struck military sites in response to Tehran's Oct 1 missile attack, itself retaliation for the killing of Iran-backed militant leaders and a Revolutionary Guards commander.